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Articles by Cindy Dachuk at EzineArticles.com

Often, the biggest trick to getting the
Leadership role is to get others to see you as the leader. New research
out helps to provide a clear strategy for helping you to cultivate the
coveted 'Leader' title.

We have heard that our actions speak
louder than our words. In the world of non-verbal communication though,
portraying more confidence and strength begins with your posture.
Learning to adopt a Power Pose can almost instantaneously make you
appear more confident, powerful, credible and capable. Read on to learn
the secrets to strengthening your Pose and personal Power.

As much as stress is a permanent fixture
in our lives, we do not have to become a slave to it. This article
provides you with the Top 6 methods available to help you control and
manage your stress levels more successfully on the job.

When push comes to shove, most of us
would admit to wanting 'more' from our lives, whether more money, time,
happiness, success, recognition, love... Something! However, wanting
more doesn't always translate out into doing more. Read on to find out
why your 'reasons' may be holding you back from achieving what you would
like most from your life.

We all have Super Powers, we just don't
all cultivate them. Discover why Public Speaking could be one of your
greatest powers and why spending time developing this skill may prove
more valuable than you once thought!

Building and maintaining trust in our
relationships and business dealing is essential to our reputation and
longer term success. Given that trust can easily be broken but difficult
to repair, it is important that we understand what it takes to embody
trustworthiness.

We hear that the key to true satisfaction
with our careers, if not our lives in general, is to find and follow
our passion. Do something you love and the time will fly and the money
will flow. It sounds easy but you can't follow what you can't identify.
Many people struggle with identifying what their 'passion' is. This
article outlines a 7-Step process for helping you to find yours!

In today's business world, we are called
upon to work with and through others over whom we have no direct
authority. Enhancing our ability to Influence and Persuade others has
therefore become a more critical management skill than ever before. In
this article we take a lesson from Benjamin Franklin, adding one more
technique into our Influence toolkit.

Regardless of the role we play in
business, we are all called upon to share our ideas with others.
Unfortunately, many of the best ideas go unheard simply because we lack
the skills to deliver a strong vocal message. In this article I
highlight 8 key tips from the Pros to help you to get your message out
and to get it remembered!

We have all had times in which we have
experienced a 'flash' of seemingly random insight. It turns out that
these moments may not be so random after all and learning to craft those
moments may improve our decision making skills.

New research out indicates that our
success can, in part, be attributed to not necessarily how smart we are,
but whether we believe our intelligence is preset or can improve over
time. A shift in our mindset may be all that is holding us back from
achieving a greater level of success.

In the ideal communication process we
have Speaking and Listening. However, much of our skill in Listening
fully, attentively and consciously is being lost. Read on to discover
how you can tune up your listening skills.

With the emphasis in Corporate America
resting squarely on rewarding Extroverted behaviour, Introverts can
often be overlooked around the boardroom table. Use some of the tips
offered here to help you find a 'voice' around the meeting room table
and still feel comfortable in your Introverted shoes!

Our defence mechanisms often serve a
useful purpose. In the short term, all are designed as coping
mechanisms. However, as time goes by, our defence mechanisms can work
against our ability to manage and cope, keeping us from facing the
reality of our choices and situation.

Few of us like, or are good at, marketing
ourselves directly to others. Although we may recognise that Bragging
is a necessary skill, it may not be a comfortable one. However, there
are numerous ways to Brag more effectively, many of which make use of
indirect means. Learning to promote yourself through your Social
Networks is a great way to extend your voice without have to learn to
speak louder!

You have likely heard of Pareto's
Principle, also referred to as the 80/20 rule... which states that
roughly 80% of the effects are derived from 20% of the causes. In order
to enhance our rate of success we need to apply this principle to the
work that we do, ensuring that we focus our efforts on the 20% that will
net us the highest return.

Understanding the principles behind the
concept of Personal Power, along with your sources of power, are
important contributors to your achieving what you want in life. It is
often through our sense of powerless in situations that we undermine our
belief in ourselves, leading us to work in ways that support others,
not ourselves. Reconnecting with our power-base allows us to begin
making decisions and taking actions that are in alignment with our
interests and goals, leading to greater success and happiness.

We all have people in our lives that we
consider to be friends, people that not only care about us but that
actively support us. What about those people, ostensibly our friends,
that seem to want to sabotage, rather than support our success? This
article explores the nature of 'Frenemies' and provides guidance on how
you can manage yours!

Although Goldilocks may not be the model
of 'Success' that would first come to mind, she had one clear insight
that we could all benefit from. She was a strong proponent of the value
of recognising when things were 'just right'. For those of us striving
to achieve a given level of success in our careers and lives, the
concept of 'just right' is an important one to integrate into our
existing strategies.

We set goals, we make plans, we take
action and yet we may still not be realizing fully the level of success
that we desire. This article explores the unconscious elements that may
be holding us back from achieving the level of success we desire - and
how to use visualization to break through!

Determining the type and number of
choices that you make available to others will have a definite impact on
the success rate of any influence attempt. This article provides you
with the basics for understanding how to integrate the concept of
'choice' to enhance the quality of your influence strategies.

In general, we all like to be liked. As a
result, we will engage in behaviours, often unconsciously, designed to
get our audience to be positively disposed toward us. Research has shown
us that feeling and believing that others like and respect us can be a
great source of personal pride. It can go a long way to helping shape
our internal beliefs about ourselves.

Research studies have shown a clear
connection between the emotional state of the individual and the success
of an influence strategy. In these studies, people were either exposed
to messages that were designed to induce fear-based emotions or
romantic-based emotions. These emotions were created through short
stories and film clips.

If you are anything like me, then you
likely find yourself overloaded with more things to do in a day than can
possibly be accomplished. We use technology more to stay on top of
things, and to keep in touch with everyone, than to free up our time.